Geospatial Research Centre Opens Wellington Branch

Date: 30 March 2009

The Christchurch based Geospatial Research Centre (GRC) recently opened its first branch office at Victoria University in Wellington.

The new Wellington GRC team will include experienced research scientists and engineers, as well as embedded PhD and graduate students, able to support a range of geospatial technologies and disciplines including: positioning and orientation, imaging and image analysis, communications and signal analysis, GIS and both manned and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems.

GRC was founded in 2006 with the active support of the University of Canterbury, the University of Nottingham (UK) and Canterbury Development Corporation. GRC is based at the New Zealand ICT Innovation Institute (NZi3) at Canterbury University. Originally a five-strong group, the GRC team has expanded to a team of twenty-five people.

Read more about the new branch in GRC's media release.

Surveying the sector

The New Zealand Geospatial Office worked with the GRC in 2007 to design a survey on New Zealand's geospatial sector. The survey, the first of its kind, gives a picture of who in the sector is doing what and identifies barriers and opportunities for the sector's growth. The survey was commissioned by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to help better understand how it can support the sector.

Read the GRC's final report (PDF 300KB), published in January 2008.